Davids, Allan; du Rand, Gideon; Georg, Co-Pierre; … - 2021
This paper studies the effects of social learning on the transmission of COVID-19 in a network model. We calibrate our … model to detailed data for Cape Town, South Africa and show that the inclusion of social learning improves the prediction of … excess fatalities, reducing the best-fit squared difference from 20.06 to 11.28. The inclusion of social learning both …